Listening to a talk by Vanessa Davidson and Florencia Bassano on mail art in Latin America. There are some ideas here that I’m thinking about. I’m using this blog also to archive some media that is meaningful to me.

Mail art was “concerned with the mechanics of communication in general, [and] with aesthetic communication in particular.”

See also Edgardo-Antonio Vigo: “The fact that the [art] work must travel a set distance is part of its structure; it is the work itself. The work has been created to be sent through the mail. The postal system then does not exhaust its function in the transfer of the work, but it incorporates and conditions it. And the artist changes, in turn, the function of this medium of communication.”

See also mail artists:

Paulo Bruscky. “O meu grito.”

Leonhard Frank Duch: “I Am An Artist.”

Eugenio Dittborn

Claudia del Rio

Did email kill Mail Art?

See also the 2025 exhibit In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships in the Blanton Museum of Art. The idea that artists never create in isolation.

Several years ago, I was working with “procedures” to make art, and it feels like a good time to do that again. It provided a fascinating rule-based activity that helped me deal with the chaos of life. Found this revision of a geomancy site I had previously consulted. One can use divination procedures to initiate art.

Here is an older piece on mixed-media paper based on a found word in the dictionary, “gross.” The word and the rules determined the media and the content in each section.